COMMISSION HEARINGS BEFORE THE THE UNIVERSTY AUG 13 1963 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON MAIN READING ROOM NOMINATION OF ASHTON C. BARRETT OF MISSISSIPPI, TO BE BARRETT REAPPOINTMENT TO MARITIME COMMISSION FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1963 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:05 a.m., in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Senator E. L. Bartlett presiding. Senator BARTLETT. The committee will be in order. The purpose of the hearing this morning is to consider the nomination of Ashton C. Barrett to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner. Mr. Barrett was appointed to the newly created Federal Maritime Commission and appeared before this committee for confirmation in February 1962. Recently Mr. Barrett has served as Vice Chairman of the Commission. He has submitted the customary financial statement for the guidance of the committee, which will be kept on file. A biographical sketch has been submitted which will be placed in the record. I also want to place in the hearing record at this time a list of the members of the Federal Maritime Commission as of June 30, 1963. (The biographical sketch and membership list follow :) BIOGRAPHY OF ASHTON C. BARRETT Ashton C. Barrett, Vice Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, was renominated on June 28, 1963, as a member of the Federal Maritime Commission by President John F. Kennedy. Upon confirmation by the Senate he will serve a 4-year term to expire June 30, 1967. Mr. Barrett was first nominated to the Federal Maritime Commission by President Kennedy on September 26, 1961. At that time he received a term which expired June 30, 1963. In January of 1963, Commissioner Barrett was elected by his colleagues as Vice Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. In 1925, Mr. Barrett invested in the growing essential service industry of laundering and drycleaning. His organizational ability was called upon in Mississippi to assure these essential services to the Army Air Force and other military installations in the area. His enterprises also served the growing gulf resort of Biloxi, Miss. Mr. Barrett has been commended for his participation in numerous advisory meetings with Armed Forces personnel and civic leaders and for the devotion of great amounts of his time and talents to welfare activities in behalf of military personnel and their families. Mr. Barrett serves as a national trustee from the State of Mississippi for the Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults. His time and business talents have been given in generous measure to this activity for a period of more than 8 years. Commissioner Barrett also served as president of A. C. Barrett & Associates in the development of real estate in Birmingham, Ala. Professional staff member assigned to these hearings: August J. Bourbon. |